Aspect No. 8 - El Serpiente.
Aside from pulling from my own lived experience & my families’ immigration to the United States from Colombia, a portion of this project’s visual language was pulled from the Muisca & what I learned of their cosmology. The way they viewed their connection to nature, materials, creating & its process really resonated with me & mirrored my own spiritual views.
El Serpiente is the first of 4 golden stapled Aspects which represent Los Divinos, the divine, or personification of deities in the world of Perdida, which explore & reference the divine & cosmology of various Pre-Hispanic cultures.
El Serpiente is manifested by the following future relics -
El Chaleco del Serpiente - a gold boarder staple embellished elongated linen vest.
Los Pantalones Anchos en Bronce - a wide leg draped high waisted trousers in viscose.
See below for a look into the process.
Historian Mercedes Medina De Pacheco explains in such a beautiful way, the relationship the a Muisca had with gold.
“Gold isn’t what it’s worth, whats worth is the labor that the ancestors put into the material. They came to have such beautiful, sophisticated, and elaborate technique that resulted in a sense of aesthetic so elevated.
They used the gold, as an element that connected them to eternity, as it never corroded or oxidized. For them gold didn’t have a value in wealth or currency, it had it’s value in a spiritual way, and that speaks to the beauty of our ancestor’s spirit.”
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This Aspects introduces Los Divinos, (the divine) they are personifications of myths and practices from the Musica.
In the world of Perdida, Los Divinos are brought forth when Los Plateados y Los Cobreados come together in practice and worship. They are Tumbagas closest to the celestials, the bridge between the physical and the spiritual.
(In reference to the tumbaga alloy being copper and silver mixed with gold to create objects of worship.)
Museo del Oro.
